. Rossiana; papers and documents relating to the history and genealogy of the ancient and noble house of Ross, of Ross-shire, Scotland, and its descent form the ancient earls of Ross, together with the descent of the ancient and historic family of Read, from Rede of Trough-end, Reade of Barton Court, Berks, and Read of Delaware. Also some account of the related families. was elected to the Senate of the United States. At the expirationof his term he was re-elected. He resigned in 1793, and accepted the officeof chief justice of Delaware, which he filled until his death, on the 21st ofSeptember
. Rossiana; papers and documents relating to the history and genealogy of the ancient and noble house of Ross, of Ross-shire, Scotland, and its descent form the ancient earls of Ross, together with the descent of the ancient and historic family of Read, from Rede of Trough-end, Reade of Barton Court, Berks, and Read of Delaware. Also some account of the related families. was elected to the Senate of the United States. At the expirationof his term he was re-elected. He resigned in 1793, and accepted the officeof chief justice of Delaware, which he filled until his death, on the 21st ofSeptember, 1798. Chief Justice Read commanded public confidence, notonly from his profound legal knowledge, sound judgment and impartialdecisions, but from his severe integrity and estimable private who differed from him in opinion believed that he was acting from asense of duty, and declared that there was not a dishonest fibre in his heartnor an element of meanness in his soul. He left three distinguished Read, second, for thirty years United States district attorney ofDelaware; William Read, consul-general of the kingdom of Naples, andJohn Read, Senator of Pennsylvania; and one daughter, Mary Read, whomarried Colonel Matthew Pearce, of Poplar Neck, Cecil County, Read, the signer, was an ardent member of the Church of England. Silver Service which Belonged to George Read. the Signer. and afterwards of the American Episcopal Communion, and for many yearsone of the wardens of Emmanuel Church, New Castle; and he lies in thatbeautiful and quiet churchyard, where seven generations of the Read familyrepose. The colonial Read mansion, on the west bank of Delaware Bay, in NewCastle, in which George Read, the signer, lived and died, was the scene ofelegant hospitality for many long years. Here the leading magnates of thecolonies were entertained before the Revolution, and within its hospitablewalls were gathered from time to time groups of fashionabl
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